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ONLILNE EXCLUSIVE – Team hopes for wins in weekend’s games

Published Nov 4, 2005

This weekend, the Horned Frogs will play New Mexico at the Johnson Center in Albuquerque, N.M., and then travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., to take on Air Force on Sunday.TCU looks to even the season series with a win over New Mexico on Friday.

Earlier this year, TCU fell behind 2-0 before rallying to tie the match, but then dropped the fifth game 15-12 to the Lobos. Head coach Prentice Lewis said she hopes the team's determination will allow it to prevail.

Alito: Better than Miers, but still possibly too conservative

Alito: Better than Miers, but still possibly too conservative

Published Nov 4, 2005

Our president seems to be missing the point on a variety of issues. While I commend his most recent move in regard to the Supreme Court, he still has a long way to go. Judge Samuel Alito, who has been nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, is by far a better candidate than Harriet Miers, but is still lacking.Alito is serving on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has been for 15 years. He was nominated in 1990 by former president George H. W. Bush. At the time, both conservatives and liberals commended him and said that his experience and record served him well.

SGA candidates face off in debate

Published Nov 3, 2005

If you are uncertain whom to vote for Student Government Association president, today is your chance to find out information about the five candidates in a presidential debate hosted by SGA President David Watson.The debate will be at noon today in the Brown-Lupton Student Center Lounge.

Watson said the debate would be similar to the 2004 U.S. presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry.

Mexican restaurant serves up taste, value

Published Nov 3, 2005

Tucked away on Pulido Street next to the Mecca for sororities and fraternities, Brown Bag, Pulido's is a little Mexican joint that claims to have the best reasonably priced Mexican food in town. After hearing friends rave, especially about Pulido's breakfast, I had to check it out for myself.Just off West Vickery Boulevard, Pulido's appears to be one of those old-fashioned mom and pop restaurants you hear about from the '60s. The owner greets you at the door, and I noticed most people migrate to their usual tables as they catch up with their waiter.

Horned Frogs finish 13th out of 16 in final fall tournament

Published Nov 3, 2005

The women's golf team had a strong final round Wednesday in the Las Vegas Founders Women's Collegiate Showdown but finished the three-day tournament 13th out of 16 teams."We had a rough start, but we played well and ended on a positive note," head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said.

The Frogs improved each round but still finished 60 stokes behind champion UCLA.

Some of the players said they struggled the first day but felt they got back in the swing of things by the end of the tournament.

Team members head to ITA final

Published Nov 3, 2005

Sophomore tennis player Nicole Leimbach, senior Helena Besovic and freshman Anna Sydorska will compete this weekend in the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship in Columbus, Ohio.The indoors begin today and Leimbach, who is ranked No. 1, is scheduled to face Natalie Frazier from Georgia in the first round.

"I feel prepared for this tournament," Leimbach said. "I have been practicing a lot, and I am pretty confident going into the weekend."

Students serve NAACP statewide

Published Nov 3, 2005

Four members of the TCU chapter of the NAACP have been elected officers on the state executive board for the youth division of organization.Erica Parker, Allison Robinson, Brittany Conley and Dominique Akins will not only be serving TCU students as representatives for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on campus, but they will also be leading students across the state for the next two years, officers said.

The four TCU students are part of a seven-member state board.

Your View

Published Nov 3, 2005

Monday's forum for the political candidates should be front page news. It should, in fact, be above the fold front page news, but am I right in supposing the Skiff could not justify printing such a mediocre, poorly written and researched story on the top of page one?I am not surprised at the lack of pictures - as all present at the forum can attest, the Skiff did not make an appearance. Not only did the candidates expect the Skiff to be there, it is a duty of this publication to inform the students, and the Skiff did not adequately do this.

Gay marriage amendment nears vote, stirs disputes

Published Nov 3, 2005

The fate of a controversial new amendment that could legally define marriage in Texas will be decided Nov. 8 in state elections."Not only is it defining marriage, but it's also foreclosing the possibility...

Movie Review – Prime

Published Nov 3, 2005

Differences make relationships much more difficult.Race has always been the difference movies latch on to, but religion and age are pretty important as well.

While differences make the main characters' relationship difficult in the new movie "Prime," what they share makes things worse - What if you told your therapist intimate details about your new love-interest only to find out your therapist was your significant other's mother?

Concert Calendar

Published Nov 3, 2005

The Ridglea TheaterToday: First Impressions: Best of the New!; Open Mic Jam hosted by Alan and Company

Friday: Death Cab for Cutie; SOLD OUT

Saturday: Element Eighty "The Bear" CD Release Party with Lockjaw, Loaded Moses, LaME, Necrogazm, Solareye, System, Overload, Skard Soul. Autograph signing from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the lounge

Wreck Room

Today: 2-High String Band, Electric Mountain, Rotten Apple Gang

Friday: Flametrick Subs and High School Caesar.

Saturday: Catfish Whiskey and Jasper Stone

Avian flu preparations sufficient

Published Nov 3, 2005

While there are certainly some people that haven't even heard of the Avian flu - or as it is commonly called, bird flu - others have deemed the disease an imminent threat.The disease is a strain of influenza found in birds to which humans have not built up a natural immunity.

Even though the virus, at this time, has only passed from bird to human and not from human to human, many agencies around the world have been tracking the spread of the virus in hopes of containing it.